Access keys | Skip to primary navigation | Skip to secondary navigation | Skip to content | Skip to footer

Project Overview

Project Proposal

Current Projects

Australia

Define the distribution of Hendra virus in bat populations.
Satellite telemetry studies of movement patterns of flying foxes.
The dynamics of infection and excretion of Hendra virus in Australian flying fox populations.
Virus replication and transmission in experimentally infected flying foxes.

Malaysia

Anthropogenic forest burning, ENSO, encroachment and emergence of NiV.
Define the distribution of HeV and NiV in bat populations in southeast Asia.
Satellite radio telemetry studies of movement patterns of flying foxes.
The dynamics of infection and excretion of HeV and NiV in flying fox populations.

United States of America

Mathematical modeling of emergence.
Human encroachment, deforestation and emergence of Nipah virus.
GIS mapping of the impact of anthropogenic changes on Nipah and Hendra virus.

Student Projects